This bot runs notifications for those WikiProjects that sign up for it. See, for example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Technology/Notifications. The goal is to make membership within a WikiProject useful by supplying updates of interest to the members.
The account is called WikiProject Notification Service instead of "bot" for the more natural sounding notification, "WikiProject Notification Service mentioned you..."
How does it work?
- The bot checks for use of the {{WikiProjectCard}} template. WikiProjectCard is used for WikiProject membership; the "cards" are stored in user space. See for example User:Harej/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Women in Technology.
- Each card stores configuration options for each notification that can be generated by the bot. Currently you can sign up for these notifications:
- New members
- New discussions relevant to the WikiProject (not implemented yet)
- The bot produces one notification per day for each type of notification. The notifications are posted to a notification subpage; see the example linked above.
- Wikipedia Notifications are sent to each user by linking to their username within the notification such that it isn't visible when the page is rendered, as so: [[User:Example| ]]
How do I implement this for my WikiProject?
More information soon.